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“I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.”

Persons Self Abandon Imaginary True Self

Author:Amy Lee

“Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.”

Ifs Self Consequence Paid True Self

Author:Wendell Pierce

“Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.”

Mind Self Moments Light Next Effort Consciousness Focus Flower Ocean Eternal Awake Glorious Present Moment Butterfly Within You True Self Here And Now Drifting Like A Butterfly

Author:Denise Linn

“I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it's safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It's only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do.”

“Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?”

Self Home Body Care Reflection Pet Clothings True Self Surroundings Express Yourself

Author:Christiane Northrup

“The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.”

Ideas Self Bird No Idea True Self

Book:Introductions and Reviews

Source: Introductions and Reviews

“Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self.”

Want Self Reason Beautiful Silence Seeing Projects Painful Attractive Hypocrisy Fragile True Self Painful Experiences

Author:Basil Pennington

“You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible.”

Persons Self Natural Awareness Peaceful True Self Relaxed

Author:Bartholomaus

“Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.”

Should Self Use Hands Desire Energy Enemy Conflict Weapons Negative Possession Reputation Demon Attachment Frightened True Self Rejecting Negative Energy

Author:Teresa Giudice

“Choosing succulence is a deliberate act of personal revolution. It means waking up! Embracing your true self, studying your patterns, and letting out your most alive self. We all have one.”

Mean Self Study Alive Revolution Wake Up Patterns Waking True Self Deliberate

Author:Sark

“The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.”

Inspirational Made Self Use Accepting Creativity Creative Acceptance Creator Self Acceptance True Self Bargains Gift From God

Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.”

Self Illusion Yoga Fallen True Self Self Conscious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.”

Soul Self Speak Voice Heard Reflection Depth True Self

Book:Mirrored Voices: Best New Poets

Source: Mirrored Voices: Best New Poets

“The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.”

Self Moving Suffering Failing Rivers Shining Life Changing True Self

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.”

Self Levels Healing Doors Divine Wide True Self Nature Beauty Divine Healing

Author:Robyn

“When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.”

Self Play Bigs Able Waiting Rooms Deals Gay Athlete Significant Coming Out True Self Compelled Big Deal Teammate Tabloids Significant Other Authentic Life Pro Athlete

Author:Jason Collins

“Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.”

Self Practice Ultimate Excellence True Self

Author:Dogen

“Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.”

Self Attitude True Self Vanguard

Book:The Difference Maker Lunch & Learn

Source: The Difference Maker Lunch & Learn

“Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.”

“You cannot hide your true self forever.”

Self Forever Identity True Self

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.”

Should Firsts Self Lying Steps Achieve First Steps True Self Lying To Yourself

Author:Ayumi Hamasaki

“Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.”

Giving Self Problem Names Process Levels Psychology Childhood Self Esteem Acceptance Giving Up Normal Seeking Esteem Lifts Approval True Self Components Kinship Perfectly Normal

Author:David Richo

“The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.”

Self Mankind True Self Service To Mankind Best Service

Author:Asaram